Im 18F and ive been having issues with my body image lately and its partly because i recently broke my diet I've been on for months. One of my insecurities has to do with my tummy. It is a tad pudgy and months back when I started doing research to see what i could do to get rid of this pudge. I've been working out for two years so I'm toned all around, I was just so sad about my soft tummy.

I figured out that it came from food intolerances. I've always known im Lacose intolerrint but i've always ignored it because good god i love cheese. I would have cheese everyday, yogurt everyday, all that. Whenever i went to the movie theatres i would get nachos with extra cheese on the side so i can drink the cheese. Can you guess what country im from?

I decided if i really wanted to fix this insecurity of my pudge, i would have to stop eating dairy. So i did that and i stuck to it for months (of course having little cheat days). This diet helped me so much physically and mentally. However, this past month i fell back into my bad ways and got my tummy back. So yesterday I went to trader joes for my grocery run and looked for lacktoes free milk. This was my first time getting this, a friend recommended it to me since i like making smoothies and ive been getting tired of almond milk and cant have the whole milk i so desperately want.

I couldn't find the laktos free milk so i went to an associate and asked "Do you have any lactate milk?"

The way this man looked at me with so much disgust made my heart drop, and i got a bit defensive because i was already having a bad day so we got into a small argument. This is is basically how it went:

"Do we have what?"

"Lactate milk..."

"Why?"

"What do you mean why? Do you have it or not?"

"Im sorry but we do not have time for jokes today."

"What are you talking about? I just want the milk?"

"Why the hell would we have breast milk?"

I explained to him that i needed a different type of milk because of my intolerance. He understood and we apologized to each other and i realized that the milk is called LACTAID not LACTATE. The dude was around my age so i'm glad it wasn't an older person that didnt think i was completely stupid. The trader joes man and i talked for a bit and we agreed we both had a brain fart. He said he was having a stressful day and should've known what i meant by "lactate". I got his instagram and we are friends now. I didn't get my milk though, the specific one my friend recommended was out of stock.

TL;DR

I asked for "lactate" milk instead of "lactaid" Trader joes man snapped at me and now we are friends. so it ended well but im still embarrassed.